Francis Raven is a graduate student in philosophy at Temple University.  His first book of poems, Taste: Gastronomic Poems (Blazevox, 2005), and novel Inverted urvatures (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005), were recently published.  Poems have been published in Mudlark, Conundrum, Chain, Big Bridge, Le Petite Zine, Caffeine Destiny, and Can We Have Our Ball Back?  among others. His critical work can be found in Jacket, Clamor, The Emergency Almanac, The Morning News, The Brooklyn Rail, Media and Culture, In These Times, The Fulcrum Annual, Rain Taxi, Sauce, and Pavement Saw.

 

 

Sandra Tappendon doesn't keep track of poems published but thinks there must be at least  hundred out there somewhere.... Nowadays they appear online: Stride, Litter, Raunchland, Argotist.... 'I used to get free tickets to arts events for writing very short reviews. It was good for my social life. I'd like to do it again.'

 

Peter Finch has been a major figure in poetry since the 1960's. For a full biography, go to: 

http://www.peterfinch.co.uk/aboutpf.htm

 

Derrick Buttress was born in Nottingham in 1932. More than 150 of his poems have been published in magazines and journals in the UK and US. Poems were also broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Six radio plays were broadcast by BBC Radio 4. There are three collections of poetry: Spiking the Boss's G in (Mo-saic) 1998.3 Waiting For the Invasion (Shoestring) 2002 My Life As A Minor Character (Shoestring) 2005. A Memoir, Broxtowe Boy, was published in
2004, also by Shoestring.

 

 

Rupert Loydell is Lecturer in Creative Writing at University College Falmouth, the Managing Editor of Stride Publications, Editor of Stride magazine, and a regular contributor of articles and reviews to Tangents magazine. Recent publications include A Conference of Voices, The Museum of Light and Endlessly Divisible, and four
collaborative works. The Smallest Deaths has just been published by bluechrome.


Robert Garlitz is Professor of English at Plymouth State University in central New Hampshire. His poems and essays have appeared in
Three Candles, RANAM, Mudlark, The Lucid Stone, Tangents, Stride, Slope, Centripetal and Exquisite Corpse. In 2001 Stride published Robert Lax: Speaking To Silence with Nicholas Zurbrugg & Rupert  Loydell. The prose poem collection, Snowshoes Across the Clouds, with Rupert Loydell, appeared in 2004; his study of language and religious rhetoric, Kenneth Burke's Logology and Literary Criticism,was published last fall.

 

 

 

 

Margaret Christakos is a Canadian poet and fiction writer whose sixth poetry collection, Sooner, was published in Fall 2005 by Coach House Books. A chapbook from Nomados Editions, Adult Video, is forthcoming in Spring 2006. These poems are from her new manuscript The Hoity Toity Supplements.